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V.4.b Pompeii
Badly damaged in bombing of 1943.
Part 2. Part 1
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Lararium with Genius
and tibicen, found on the east wall of the atrium, near the kitchen door.
Underneath the niche,
to the left on the pillar, was a representation of Mercury. All faded.
The pillar was in the
south-east corner of the garden portico.
See Jashemski, W. F.,
1993. The Gardens of
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, p.168.
See Boyce G. K.,
1937. Corpus of the Lararia of
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According to Boyce,
within the niche and on the surrounding wall was the Lararium painting, on a
background of yellow.
On the back wall of
the niche the Genius poured a libation upon a cylindrical altar, on the
opposite side of which stood the tibicen.
On the wall on either
side of the niche was a Lar. The one on the right held a rhyton and situla.
The one on the left
held a rhyton and a cup, like a skyphos.
On the left side wall
of the niche was the popa leading a hog.
Below the level of
the niche on the left side was Mercury, with petasos, caduceus and purse.
These three figures
on the left side were painted on the column of the peristyle which was
partially built into the west wall of the kitchen.
Immediately below the
niche, a crested serpent (two serpents according to Sogliano in the Not.Scavi, one according to Mau in the Rom.Mitt) glides among plants.
The surface of this
painting had been covered over in antiquity with a thin coat of plaster, as if
to make it ready for repainting.
Not. Scavi, 1901, 331; Rom.Mitt., xvi, 1901, 362.
See Boyce G. K.,
1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.42, no.129,
Pl.13,1)
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Remains of Tibicen
and Genius either side of an altar.
See Giacobello, F.,
2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e
culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano:
LED Edizioni, p.168.
See Boyce G. K.,
1937. Corpus of the Lararia of
V.4.b Pompeii.
Painting by Luigi Bazzani.
This painting shows
the lararium with Genius and tibicen, found on the east wall of the atrium,
near the kitchen doorway.
Underneath the niche,
to the left on the pillar, was a representation of Mercury.
The pillar was in the
south-east corner of the garden portico.
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V.4.b Pompeii. March
2009. East wall of kitchen.
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Painted plaster from
site of tablinum?
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Looking south-west
across atrium, towards the cubiculum on south side of entrance.
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South-west corner of
atrium, doorway to cubiculum, and entrance fauces, looking west.
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